Training Courses

The in-person cathodic protection course combines theoretical instruction with practical laboratory work. The principal tests available in Pahvaz's educational and research laboratory include:

1. Natural potential test of different structures in different electrolytes
2. Mixed-potential measurement of steel and copper
3. Soil resistivity, pH, and electrolyte temperature measurement
4. Open-circuit potential test of sacrificial anodes
5. Observation of galvanic corrosion between an anode and cathode
6. Closed-circuit potential test of sacrificial anodes
7. Internal tank protection with sacrificial anodes
8. Cathodic protection of a steel structure in water
9. Pipe ON and instant-OFF potential test for an impressed-current system
10. Protective-potential measurement of a tank-bottom plate with an MMO titanium ribbon anode
11. 100 mV potential-shift test for a tank
12. Protective potential of a tank-bottom plate with an MMO titanium perimeter anode
13. Internal tank protective-potential test with a tubular MMO titanium anode
14. Cathodic protection of a tank with a geomembrane liner
15. Cathodic protection of a tank with a bituminous floor coating, compared with an uncoated tank
16. Grounding and cathodic-protection interference test
17. Potential test with and without an isolating joint
18. Protective-current distribution test along a pipeline
19. Comparison of sacrificial-anode and impressed-current systems for a pipeline
20. Assessment of the effect of anode-to-pipeline distance
21. Interaction test between two energized cathodic protection systems using two transformer rectifiers
22. Steel pipeline casing test
23. Reference-electrode calibration
24. Connection and contact-resistance test
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